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cs.LG2026

Optimizing the Phi-2 Small Language Model for Real-time Chatbot Applications Using Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) with QLoRA Quantization

PhanTan Khanh Nguyen, Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

This study explores the optimization of the Phi-2 Small Language Models (SLMs) for real-time chatbot applications through Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) and Quantized Low-R…

cs.CR2026

PatchRisk: Forecasting Future Vulnerability Exposure in Open-Source Dependency Networks

Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

Open-source software ecosystems are web-scale dependency networks. A downstream package can become exposed to security risk not because its own source code changes, but because one…

cs.LG2026

Leakage-Safe and Scheduler-Aware Machine Learning for Grid Job Runtime Prediction

Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

Accurate job runtime prediction can improve scheduling-aware resource management in grid and distributed computing environments, but prediction models must be evaluated under reali…

cs.SI2026

Not All Duplicates Are Coordination: Generic vs. Non-Generic Duplicate Campaigns in Information Operations

Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

Duplicate content is widely used to study coordinated behavior in social media information operations (IOs), but not all repetition provides equally meaningful evidence of coordina…

cs.LG2026

Synthetic Data in Education: Empirical Insights from Traditional Resampling and Deep Generative Models

Tapiwa Amion Chinodakufa, Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

Synthetic data generation offers promise for addressing data scarcity and privacy concerns in educational technology, yet practitioners lack empirical guidance for selecting betwee…